Jannis J Grimm

Mark my words, even if Eastern Ukraine was divided into A, B, and C zones, with roads built for exclusive use by Russian settlers, there would be people denying the parallels to Palestine and defending segregation in the Westbank while denouncing occupation of Ukraine in one breath..

Frankly, I'd take an AI written review over the bs-engagement I've gotten from reviewers lately. If people don't have time or interest in helping improve a paper, then why accept an invitation to review in the first place?

Waited 6 months for reviews on an article that we really poured so much heartblood into, only to get *one* paragraph with a broad and unspecific (albeit scathing) critique and literally no suggestions on how to improve the paper. Oh how I f***in hate this academic publishing business.

I think nemesis is always reciprocal, otherwise it's just stalking

Research group leader in comparative area studies:

This post holder will be responsible for coordinating a newly created Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS). 2/3

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Merle Spellerberg ist die 1. (ehemalige) Abgeordnete, grüne Fraktion, die sich auf Instagram öffentlich für ihr Schweigen zu #Gaza entschuldigt. Mit der Bemerkung "Ein Text den ich hätte früher schreiben müssen". Ein wichtiges Statement das hoffentlich Reflexion und Aufarbeitung anstößt.

YouTube video by VIPR - Varna Peace Institute "I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It" - Prof Omer Bartov (247)

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(Hend-sight is bliss as they say, @libyaliberty.bsky.social)

on secondary analyses where we don't know any better ourselves. Apparently, the threshold of how much evidence it takes to acknowledgea very visible empirical phenomenon - a genocide that is live streamed - was never higher though.. and I regret not having done more to lower that threshold.

for too long, saying to myself that I'm not a genocide scholar and couldn't judge. But then, I'm not a climate scholar either and still intellectually capable to accept there is climate change based on the testimonies of experts in the field. That's what we do as social scientists, relying..

actively speaking up (in my case a fellow white western scholar with a similar positionality to to so), 3) how little we credit experts/scholars who named the genocide in Gaza for what it was from the start for their courage. Today, I'm sorry for not having come around earlier. I was too hesitant..

In hindsight, what this tells me is 3 things: 1) how important peer feedback including harsh confrontation with the inadequacy of one's own language is for us to see the world in a different light, 2) how much it takes to overcome one's own fears and move from passive acknowledgement to..

It took me even longer to adopt the term in my analyses. Two turning points: 1) the discussions w/ scholars from the region at a REMENA conference at the Doha Institute in February 2024, 2) my colleague @hannapfeifer.bsky.social employing the term as one of the first conflict researchers in Germany.

Hend is right. I warned of war crimes early on but it took me way to long to accept the fact that a genocide is unfolding in front of our eyes. Raz Segal was right in his op ed, written only days after Oct 7, that Israel's retaliation campaign against Gaza was becoming a "textbook case of genocide"

Sign in Portuguese, saying: "our expectations were low, but holy shit"

Mood. 2025.

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

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How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply that estimated life expectancy [in Gaza has fallen by more than 35 years, to half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide”

Spring, Winter and back
Shifting sands
Balancing on the brink/over the brink
Laboratory of..
Between mirages and..
Bargains
Crossroads of...
Changing winds

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If I wasn't slowly getting fed up with Kalles Kaviar and hårt bröd, I really could fathom moving to a countryside cabin in Sweden.. 💙💛💙

Haben sich ihre bubble zurechtgeblockt

Bisschen über queere Menschen herziehen, mit deren Weltsicht man nicht d'accord ist ("Verirrung der anti-Imp Linken"), inklusive.

Bisschen über queere Menschen herziehen, mit deren Weltsicht man nicht d'accord ist, inklusive.

Stark. Eine ehemalige Staatssekretärin sucht auf social media die Diskussion, man argumentiert stundenlang mit ihr in good faith, ohne shitposting, Beleidigung o.ä. - und wird dann am Ende geblockt und als Teil der "Pali-Bubble" abgestempelt. Und das von einer Philosophie Professorin.

Aka "Pali-Bubble" (No Joke)

Erst gab's ein Like für diesen Post, dann einen Block. Bizarr.

So viel zur Gesprächsbereitschaft von Frau Döring

I guess that settles it.. absurd, denn die Diskussion hatte Frau Döring ja selbst gesucht...

Ja ich hab das schon alles gelesen, sonst würde ich nicht fragen. Aber was heißt denn Einfluss? Auf wen? Und zu wessen Gunsten? Das ist doch in sich nicht schlüssig. Davon abgesehen ist die Blase auch hierzulande nicht zu klein, wie Bevölkerungsumfragen zeigen (selbst innerhalb der Union)

Aber das ergibt doch keinen Sinn? Sie kritisieren doch die Symbolik. Und es gäbe dutzende Handlungsmöglichkeiten jenseits symbolischer, von personalisierten über wirtschaftliche Sanktionen über Aussetzung des Assoziierunzsabkommens etc. - das ist doch ein ein straw man, dass man nichts tun könnte